Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the plant Vaccinium Vitis-Idæa or red huckleberry. See
Vaccinium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A species of Vaccinium (
Vaccinium Vitis-idæa ), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally calledmountain cranberry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere (Vaccinium vitis-idaea). - noun The
berry of this shrub.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
- noun low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is often called a "cowberry" and is a member of the cranberry family.
Archive 2008-04-01 Wendy 2008
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It is often called a "cowberry" and is a member of the cranberry family.
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On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses.
Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar Ray Collier 2010
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Ground cover consists of cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea (R), bilberry V. myrtillus and reindeer mosses Cladonia spp ..
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None of us were particularly knowledgeable about the culinary habits of Russians, so we were pleased to find ourselves in a reasonably stylish restaurant looking over the Neva river with a menu which featured a wide range of choices such as beet carpaccio salad; cottage cheese and herbs; venison medallions with cowberry sauce and pelmeni stuffed with veal and pumpkin.
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I was fairly stumped about what a cowberry would be, until Wikipedia informed me they're the same thing as lingonberries.
Archive 2007-08-01 Annemarie 2007
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The house we're renting has its own boat and fishing rods, fruit trees in the garden, and the owner has given me maps for nearby cowberry picking.
Archive 2007-08-01 Annemarie 2007
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I was fairly stumped about what a cowberry would be, until Wikipedia informed me they're the same thing as lingonberries.
Cloudberries Annemarie 2007
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The house we're renting has its own boat and fishing rods, fruit trees in the garden, and the owner has given me maps for nearby cowberry picking.
Cloudberries Annemarie 2007
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According to a few websites the cowberry is also known as the lingonberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
Russian Booze Barbara 2005
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